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Voters of 
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THE War has placed a new burden 
on our State Schools. They are 
training specialists for this highly 
technical war. Their shops, labora- 
tories and classrooms have hundreds 
of men wearing the khaki under de- 
tail from Uncle Sam and helping to 
make the w^orld safe for you. 

These institutions must be made 
permanent and to be permanent they 
must have a permanent income. 

November 5, you vote on the Per- 
manent Income Amendment. 

Following are answers to a few 
questions you naturally ask about 
any proposed Amendment to the 
Constitution. 

THE STATE COUNCIL OF 

DEFENSE 

Committee on Educational Efficiency. 



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An Amendment to the Constitution called 
the Permanent Income Amendment which 
will secure the same war efficiency in educa- 
tion as in other lines. 

This Amendment provides for a definite 
income for the upkeep of the State Schools. 

The State Board of Administration, of 
which the Governor is chairman and for 
which the Business Manager is the execu- 
tive, will, under the permanent income plan, 
direct the expenditures of all school funds, 
as heretofore. 

The difference between the old method and 
the new is that instead of having to appropri- 
ate funds for State Educational Institutions 
at each session, the Legislature will deter- 
mine their fixed and regular needs and estab- 
lish a levy sufficient for those needs and 
that levy will continue until the need changes. 
This fund can only be used for the Schools 
and is not available for other state expenses. 

The Legislature can change the levy at any 
time. t ' 

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Leading business men of Kansas have been 
urging for years that the Schools were big 
business institutions and that the best 
business methods be adopted in support of 
them. They have urged the plan of a per- 
manent and separate School fund. 

Many members of the Legislature have 
long appreciated the inefficiency of the pres- 
ent plan and have submitted this amendment 
because it will lead to better and more econ- 
omical administration of the Schools. 

The presiding officers of the two houses 
of the Legislature say: 

"From several years experience in the Legisla- 
ture and especially from our experience as Presid- 
ing Officers we are convinced that the passage of 
the Permanent Income Amendment submitted by 
the last Legislature yovdd greatly expedite the 



and another from seeking to use money which 
ought to go to the Schools. 

It will, by introducing permanence into 
school affairs, tend to keep strong men from 
leaving Kansas for positions in institutions 
having more permanence. 

It will relieve the Legislature from the im- 
possible task of trying to master, in a few 
days, the intricacies of larger appropriation 
bills. 

It will strengthen higher education — 
demonstrated to be one of the most import- 
ant links in the war chain. 

It will put Kansas alongside of the other 
sixteen states which have adopted the ftxed 
limited income method. They are as follows : 

Michigan adopted in 1873, still in us«. 
Nebraska adopted in 1876, still in use. 
Colorado adopted in 1881, still in use. 
Indiana adopted in 1883, still in use. 
Ohio adopted in 1890, still in use. 
Minnesota adopted in 1894, still in use. 
Iowa adopted in 1896, still in use. 
Wyoming adopted in 1897, still in use. 
N. Dakota adopted in 1899, still in use. 
Kentucky adopted in 1901, still in use. 
California adopted in 1901, still in use. 
Wisconsin adopted in 1897, still in use. 
Nevada adopted in 1908, still in use. 
Tennessee adopted in 1909, still in use. 
Washington adopted in 1911, still in use. 
Illinois adopted in 1911, still in use. 

These get and hold the best men. 

When? 

This Amendment will be voted upon No- 
vember 5, 1918. At the same time you can 
vote for the other war-time measure, the 
amendment to withhold the franchise from 
those who have taken out only their first 
naturalization papers. Both amendments 
are in the interest of safety — efficient Amer- 
icanism. 

For further information write the Board 
of Administration, Arthur Capper, Ex-Of- 
ficio Chairman; or the State Council of De- 
fense, Topeka, Kansas. 



work of future Legislatures and allow them to pro- 
vide for the Schools more effectively and efficiently." 

W. Y. Morgan, Lieutenant Governor. 

A. M. Keene, Speaker of the House. 

The Official State war body, the State 
Council of Defense adopted this resolution 
July 11, 1918: 

RESOLUTION 

Whereas, The Legislature of Kansas of 1917 
realizing the sacredness of the ballot, directed the 
submission to the voters of Kansas at the general 
election to be held November 5th, of a proposal to 
limit the franchise to those persons who had taken 
out their final papers and become full citizens of 
this country and renounced their alleg^iance to kings 
and potentates of other countries; and 

Whereas, The Legislature of the State of Kan- 
sas of 1917 realizing the need of a more scientific 
manner of supporting the state schools, and that 
money raised for education should be held sacred 
for education, and that the state was being seriously 
hampered in the administration of her educational 
institutions by the lack of a permanent income, di- 
rected the submission to the voters of the State of 
Kansas of an amendment permitting the Legfislature 
to establish a definite permanent income for the 
schools that would make possible the planning of 
the affairs of these schools in advance; 

Whereas, The war conditions have made both of 
these amendments especially timely; 

Therefore, be it Resolved by the Council 
of Defense that it does hereby fully endorse 
both of said amendments and does hereby 
ask the people of the State of Kansas to vote 
for said amendments as war measures. 

The State Council of Defense has appointed 
a committee on educational efficiency to 
present the vital importance of this Amend- 
ment to the voters of the State as an emerg- 
ency war measure, because efficiency in 
education means efficiency in army organi- 
zation, greater fighting power, and better 
preparation for handling the after-war prob- 
lems. 



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In the first place the people will know what 
they are raising money for. The funds used 



for expenses of the State can be more easily 
scrutinized. They will know what they are 
investing in the young men and women of 
the State for the State's welfare. 

The people will know what they are paying 
taxes for. The funds for the ordinary ex- 
penses can be more easily scrutinized as can 
the funds set apart by the State for educa- 
tion. 

The Amendment will put the money to be 
used for institutions of higher education in 
Kansas into a separate fund according to the 
same plan by which all other school funds 
are kept separate and sacred to educational 
purposes. 

The grab-bag methods now in use will be 
discontinued. 

The fixed limited income, having once 
been established by the Legislature, will be 
reasonably permanent. The schools with a 
permanent income can get better men than 
under present methods and will be able to 
save money, on salaries, on maintenance, 
and on construction work, since they can 
plan for years ahead along lines of greatest 
economy and efficiency. 

The Legislature in preparing the Amend- 
ment combined provisions for permanence 
with growth, stability with flexibility, and 
confidence in the present with hope for the 
future. 

The State of Kansas took an important 
step in securing a Business Manager for its 
Institutions. The next step is to enable the 
Business Manager to get the best results by 
giving him the same conditions for doing his 
work that any business manager of a great 
concern should have. 

The Permanent Income Amendment will 
take the State Institutions out of politics. 

It will make higher education in the future 
safe for Kansas children now in the element- 
ary and secondary schools. 

It will prevent selfish interests of one kind 



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